Judith Cohen is Medical Director of the Center
for Traumatic Stress in Children & Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital
in Pittsburgh, PA, and Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College
of Medicine. She is a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist.

Since
1983 Dr. Cohen has been funded by more than a dozen federally-supported grants
to conduct research related to the assessment and treatment of traumatized
children. With her colleagues, Anthony Mannarino, PhD and Esther Deblinger,
PhD, she has developed and tested Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(TF-CBT), an evidence-based treatment for sexually abused and multiply traumatized
children and their non-offending parents.

Dr. Cohen has served on the Board
of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children,
and received its Outstanding Professional Award in 2000. She is currently a
member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies, and is Associate Editor of its Journal of Traumatic Stress.
She also served as the first author of the ISTSS published guidelines for treating
childhood PTSD. Dr. Cohen is the Principal Author of the Practice Parameters
for the assessment and treatment of childhood PTSD published by the American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). In 2004, ACCAP awarded
her its 2004 Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement.

In addition to her research
and teaching duties, Dr. Cohen maintains an active clinical practice.